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☆ Corporate Tech Leaders Untangle Their Cybersecurity Roles
  + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Belle Lin | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +6 min
Information technology and cybersecurity chiefs grew closer than ever in 2022, a dynamic allowing for more comprehensive threat mitigation, but raising new questions over responsibilities. About 50% of the company’s threat planning simulations, in which IT plays an active role, involve ransomware scenarios, according to Ms. Smart. Ms. Allison is retiring at the end of the year, the company said, and will be succeeded by Gary Harbison. Photo: Adobe Inc.Prasad Ramakrishnan, the CIO and former CISO of software maker Freshworks Inc., said IT and security have shared roles in evaluating the cybersecurity resiliency of corporate software purchases. And in securing a hybrid work environment, his joint cybersecurity and IT roles included adding a new cybersecurity layer on top of cloud-based software on company laptops.
☆ Elon Musk has divided Silicon Valley friendships in the same way Donald Trump divided American families, according to former Facebook executive
  + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Tom Dotan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Musk's fans and critics in Silicon Valley find it increasingly hard to get along, according to Alex Stamos, Facebook's former CISO. Stamos, who helped oversee content moderation at Facebook during the turbulent post-2016 election period, compared the situation to Donald Trump's divisiveness. "There's a scary impulse in the valley right now [to defend Musk]," Stamos said. "The fact that he has become this pied piper for otherwise serious people...it feels in Silicon Valley like after Trump was elected and families got a little riven." Stamos also predicted that as the Musk-Twitter experiment continues to unravel, Musk's Silicon Valley supporters will recant their position if his free-for-all approach results in real-world consequences.
☆ How a naval cryptologist cracked the code of life lessons
  + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailHow a naval cryptologist cracked the code of life lessonsPutnam Investments CISO Gregory Wilson sits down with his friend FDA CISO Craig Taylor, to talk about the lessons Craig learned on his way from an impoverished neighborhood in South Carolina to working with the nation's top spies.
☆ Twitter’s cybersecurity chief quits amid company turmoil
  + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
“I’ve made the hard decision to leave Twitter,” Kissner tweeted. Their resignation was the latest example of the internal turmoil that has rocked Twitter following mass layoffs at the company. It could even put Twitter’s own employees in legal jeopardy, the message suggested, after the employee claimed Musk was unconcerned about Twitter’s potential liability before the FTC. The message outlined plans at Twitter to devolve FTC compliance responsibilities to the individual workers remaining at the company. “This will put huge amount of personal, professional and legal risk onto engineers,” the message warned, according to The Verge.
☆ Balbix: 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise
  + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Balbix uses AI and automation to reinvent how leading organizations reduce their cyber risk, an issue that's getting more complex every year. Embracing a business model referred to as cyber posture automation, the goal is to quantify the risks of hacking to organizations and move the cyber defense decision-making across the entire C-suite rather than focused solely on CISOs. Instead, CISOs need to facilitate the quantification of cyber risk in business terms and help drive the rest of the leadership team towards speedy cyber risk remediation/mitigation efforts before a breach even happens." To date, the company has raised $101.6 million over three rounds, with the most recent being $70 million in March. Investors include Alter Venture Partners, Redline Capital, Third Point Ventures, and Nautilus Venture Partners.
☆ A 'magic' new AI tech has become the hottest thing in Silicon Valley, VCs said. Here's why everyone's watching 'generative artificial intelligence.'
  + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
The field of generative AI, or AI that can create content, has recently exploded in popularity. Generative AI's rise to popularitySimply put, generative AI refers to artificial intelligence that can create content. Tech advancements over the past few years — specifically transformer and diffusion models — have made generative AI possible. AI models refer to the training and deployment of algorithms on a dataset. "I don't see generative AI today through its early use cases demanding any of those budgets quite yet."
☆ Corporate Cybersecurity Teams Struggle to Fill Jobs
  + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Catherine Stupp | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +5 min
Newsletter Sign-up WSJ Pro Cybersecurity Cybersecurity news, analysis and insights from WSJ's global team of reporters and editors. PREVIEWSeventy percent of around 11,000 cybersecurity practitioners and decision makers surveyed by (ISC)2 said their companies don’t have enough cybersecurity staff to be effective. Decathlon has become more flexible and creative in its search for cybersecurity staff and hired 26 employees last year and more than 30 so far in 2022, Mr. Illikoud said. Many corporate cybersecurity leaders hire staff from other internal teams and offer specific training if they need it. Around 43% of Principal’s cybersecurity team is now remote, up from roughly 20% before the pandemic, she said.
☆ Heightened Cyber Threat Brings CIOs, CISOs Closer
  + stars: | 2022-09-30 | by ( Isabelle Bousquette | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +4 min
In a year of high-profile cyberattacks, chief information officers say cybersecurity has sprinted up their agenda and got them working more closely than ever with chief information security officers. Her goal is to foster a culture of cyber preparedness across the company, including ensuring staff are educated about risks. Noelle Eder, chief information officer at Cigna. While compensation is growing for both the CIO and CISO roles, Mr. Stephenson said it is growing faster for CISOs. “We really need to be working together to think about ways we can better secure information,” Mr. Vidoni said.
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